Setts Of The Scottish Tartans $20

[OC Richard]

An exceptional price for a copy of this long out-of-print book.

While recent research by Peter MacDonald has revealed errors in this book (which I have noted in my copy) it remains my go-to tartan-spotting book due to the "medal ribbon" way of displaying the tartans, which I find much clearer than photos of the tartans.

Prices on this book vary wildly.

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[User]

An exceptional price for a copy of this long out-of-print book.

While recent research by Peter MacDonald has revealed errors in this book (which I have noted in my copy) it remains my go-to tartan-spotting book due to the "medal ribbon" way of displaying the tartans, which I find much clearer than photos of the tartans.
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"Medal ribbon"? Looking at the listing pictures provided, they look like regular tartan photos to me.

[geomick]

An exceptional price for a copy of this long out-of-print book.

While recent research by Peter MacDonald has revealed errors in this book (which I have noted in my copy) it remains my go-to tartan-spotting book due to the "medal ribbon" way of displaying the tartans, which I find much clearer than photos of the tartans.

Prices on this book vary wildly.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/30642138900...Bk9SR4TMgaKMZg

eBay just offered me a hard to refuse 10% price discount (so I didn't).

Is there a master list of corrections anywhere?

[OC Richard]

"Medal ribbon"? Looking at the listing pictures provided, they look like regular tartan photos to me.

There are a few photos of tartans in the book, but the main list of tartans are illustrated like this, which to me is the clearest way to view the structure of tartans.

[OC Richard]

eBay just offered me a hard to refuse 10% price discount (so I didn't).

Is there a master list of corrections anywhere?

I just have them scribbled in the margins here and there.

Sometimes it's from reading one of Peter's research articles. Sometimes it's from a comment Peter made in passing. Sometimes it's something in Scotland's Forged Tartans (an expose of the Allen Brother's evil works and empty promises).

[OC Richard]

Different book, but it's cool little century-old tartan book to have for $22, free shipping, and here in the USA.

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As is usual with these old books there's no publishing date.

The publishing date of my copy can be bracketed by the mentions of

Sir Ian Colquhoun DSO (he was awarded the DSO in 1916)

and

Sir Donal James MacKay as a current Chief (he died in 1921).

However the illustrations were around 20 years old at this time, having originally been issued as a series of postcards around the turn of the century.

Here are six of the postcards, the earliest postmarks I've seen have been 1901. The dress shown here is from the 1890s with the fully laced Doublets popular then, but sometimes given mid-18th century weapons and settings.

This mode of dress was already hopelessly out of date when The Scottish Tartans was published around the end of World War One. New illustrations were done in the 1930s and are still used in the current edition, this book having never gone out of print.

[figheadair]

eBay just offered me a hard to refuse 10% price discount (so I didn't).

Excellent purchase.

Is there a master list of corrections anywhere?

Between my ears.

[geomick]

It would be good to have a compilations of the errors and corrections so that the knowledge isn't lost and error becomes canon when there is no contradiction. Sort of similar to the fictitious accounts added by (much later) biographers to embellish their subjects which later people then believe are true.

[figheadair]

By comparison with his father's Old & Rare Scottish Tartans, DR'S Setts was much better

[geomick]

By comparison with his father's Old & Rare Scottish Tartans, DR'S Setts was much better

so we have to wait for a son or grandson (or daughter / granddaughter) to make the next generational improvements?